Proposed Millionaire Changes...

[megaaddict]

It won't happen. If TPTB have gone to the trouble of having the experts standing by, they're going to want to see them used.

Better to just abandon the ATE lifeline and bring back the one it replaced, the STQ.

I don't really see the difference between an expert appearing during a stack and saying "Sorry no idea" and appearing and being told "Sorry I think I know more than you" by the contestant. Plus TPTB could do fun stuff with a "silenced" ATA, like show his/her response to the TV audience whenever a contestant goes to another lifeline, like they do with the mystery space on Wheel of Fortune.

You seem to think the lifeline's really there to help out a contestant, instead of to provide an opportunity for a little celebrity expert chit-chat and a promotion for whatever book/magazine/sponsor they're associated with.

As for your new suggestion--ugh! I don't want to see WWTBAM turn into Hollywood Squares. Do you?

Well it's already turned into Meredith's Chairs.

[sunflower]

Why go from 4 lifelines to 3 no matter what they are? Perhaps a better idea would be to give the contestant the choice of accepting the ATE at 1K or declining, in which case they would pick up one of the currently defunct LLs like 50/50 or STQ at 25K. I'd prefer 50/50 which in conjunction with DD is a free answer!

It won't happen. If TPTB have gone to the trouble of having the experts standing by, they're going to want to see them used.

Better to just abandon the ATE lifeline and bring back the one it replaced, the STQ.

I like STQ better. It didn't help me, but at least your fate is in your own hands. At least with your PAF, you sort of have an idea of their credibility, the expert, you don't know if they're bs-ing the whole thing or not. It's so useless. I like 50/50 better than DD and I like STQ better than ATE. Maybe I'm old school, but that's what it is for me.

Now if you could give me a combo ATA/ATE where you get the audience's answer first then the expert weighs in after that (with only one life line use), okay. That's a good way to integrate celebrity and get a lot of different strangers' viewpoints all at once.

[dodgersteve182]

"Well it's already turned into Meredith's Chairs. "
Let's put the "15 Second Clock" on Meredith's opening interview, no more pix of the family (unless the contestant was raised by wolves!), no more silly antidotes that no one cares about, and they if don't have something more original to say about the "what are you going to do with the $1Million (that you will never get close to winning) question?" than I am going to help my parents out or give $10 to my favorite charity, then edit this answer from the final cut...boring, boring!
More Quiz, Less Interview and add some Drama please! Otherwise it's more like "This Is Your Life" than a game show!